Fresco: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError when Fresco.initialize(this)

[shinwan2]

Description

Hi, I have created a simple project https://github.com/shinwan2/SimpleFrescoApp. At master branch, running the app will trigger a crash on Fresco.initialize(this).
Here is the relevant stacktrace

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Failed resolution of: Landroid/support/v4/util/Pools$SynchronizedPool;
        at com.facebook.imagepipeline.core.ImagePipelineFactory.buildPlatformDecoder(ImagePipelineFactory.java:337)
        at com.facebook.imagepipeline.core.ImagePipelineFactory.getPlatformDecoder(ImagePipelineFactory.java:356)
        at com.facebook.imagepipeline.core.ImagePipelineFactory.getPlatformBitmapFactory(ImagePipelineFactory.java:319)
        at com.facebook.imagepipeline.core.ImagePipelineFactory.getAnimatedFactory(ImagePipelineFactory.java:163)
        at com.facebook.imagepipeline.core.ImagePipelineFactory.getImageDecoder(ImagePipelineFactory.java:222)
        at com.facebook.imagepipeline.core.ImagePipelineFactory.getProducerFactory(ImagePipelineFactory.java:372)
        at com.facebook.imagepipeline.core.ImagePipelineFactory.getProducerSequenceFactory(ImagePipelineFactory.java:402)
        at com.facebook.imagepipeline.core.ImagePipelineFactory.getImagePipeline(ImagePipelineFactory.java:279)
        at com.facebook.drawee.backends.pipeline.PipelineDraweeControllerBuilderSupplier.<init>(PipelineDraweeControllerBuilderSupplier.java:51)
        at com.facebook.drawee.backends.pipeline.PipelineDraweeControllerBuilderSupplier.<init>(PipelineDraweeControllerBuilderSupplier.java:42)
        at com.facebook.drawee.backends.pipeline.PipelineDraweeControllerBuilderSupplier.<init>(PipelineDraweeControllerBuilderSupplier.java:35)
        at com.facebook.drawee.backends.pipeline.Fresco.initializeDrawee(Fresco.java:96)
        at com.facebook.drawee.backends.pipeline.Fresco.initialize(Fresco.java:85)
        at com.facebook.drawee.backends.pipeline.Fresco.initialize(Fresco.java:38)

Reproduction

Please checkout to master branch, compile, and run in emulator or Android device.

Solution

Fresco (com.facebook.imagepipeline) needs additional dependency to android.support.v4.util.Pools.SynchronizedPool which based on this should be in com.android.support:support-compat:28.0.0.

Additional Information

• Fresco version: 1.11.0
• Platform version: Android Emulator API 27

Related with #2194

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[oprisnik]

Thanks for the bug report. Please add implementation 'com.android.support:support-compat:28.0.0' as a dependency to your application. I just tested with your sample app and adding this fixes the problem for now.

[JesseBuss]

I had this same error and took a long time to figure it out. In gradle.properties I had
android.enableJetifier = false

Settings it to true fixed it for me.

[tgehrs]

@JesseBuss did you add it to your project's gradle.properties or to Fresco's grade.properties?

[JesseBuss]

@tgehrs my own

[oprisnik]

Please enable Jetifier as mentioned above if you hit this issue. Thanks @JesseBuss for the solution.

[OzzieOrca]

I started getting this error with fresco 1.14.0 and 1.14.1. I had added implementation 'com.facebook.fresco:fresco:1.+' to fix images not loading with React Native 0.59.8. The + started picking up these new versions that aren't in the changelog. It appears that v1.14.0 migrated to androidx https://github.com/facebook/fresco/compare/b59414a97b6fc37269985f6d8b111b756fc42464...v1.14.0.

Downgrading to 1.13.0 with implementation 'com.facebook.fresco:fresco:1.13.0' fixed it for now. Once React Native 0.60.0 lands with androidx support, hopefully the newer versions will work too.

[Sc4ramouche]

@OzzieOrca your solution worked for us, thank you!
We're on React Native v0.57
We also had implementation 'com.facebook.fresco:animated-gif:1.+' in build.gradle, after setting it to implementation 'com.facebook.fresco:animated-gif:1.13.0' we were able to build apk.

Information about animated-gif part: react-native issue